Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

*This event has been cancelled.*

Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world’s population today. An individual’s place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although this system may appear universal, even natural, Will Hanley shows that it arose just a century ago. In Identifying with Nationality, he uses the Mediterranean city of Alexandria to develop a genealogy of the nation and the formation of the modern national subject.

Will Hanley is assistant professor of history at Florida State University.

This book talk is sponsored by the Center for Global Islamic Studies and the Department of History.